This course will provide students with the knowledge needed to diagnose and repair stand-alone and networked personal computers. The student will learn about hardware, including disk drives, mainboards, video boards, network interface cards, and modems. Students will learn how to setup, diagnose and repair network connections, servers, and workstations. Students will work with testing equipment such as oscilloscopes, patch boxes, LAN testers, and wiring tools. General software diagnostic tools will be used. The students should expect to pay for additional materials for this course.

Prerequisites: CIS231 or CIS232 or CIS233 or CIS292